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From the NHS to new homes, Starmer’s successes and setbacks – in charts
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From the NHS to new homes, Starmer’s successes and setbacks – in charts

The PM said in May that ‘stories beat spreadsheets’, but what does the data tell us about his time in office?Keir Starmer is to step down as prime minister after just two years in office.Despite promising an end to Conservative sleaze and scandal, much political bandwidth towards the end of his time...

Michael Goodier, Krystina Shveda and Olivia Lee with graphics by Tural Ahmedzade and Heidi Wilson
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‘Canaries in the coalmine of populism’: an oral history of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front row seat
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‘Canaries in the coalmine of populism’: an oral history of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front row seat

How five months in 2016 that encompassed Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation shaped the UK’s futureDavid Cameron, having promised in 2013 that a future Conservative government would offer a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, announces the...

Esther Addley. Interviews by Pippa Crerar, Rowena Mason, Jessica Elgot, Kiran Stacey, Alexandra Topping, Ben Quinn and Jennifer Rankin
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Three in five gen Z Britons would like new vote to rejoin EU, poll finds
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Three in five gen Z Britons would like new vote to rejoin EU, poll finds

Exclusive: Data reveals 60% of 18 to 28-year-olds would vote to rejoin bloc if given the opportunityA generation of young Britons who were locked out of the 2016 EU referendum because of their age now believe that Brexit has failed, with a majority demanding a fresh vote to rejoin the EU, exclusive...

Jamie Grierson
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About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year
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About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year

Exclusive: Charities say they ‘cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty’ without government supportFour hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they “cannot continue to absorb...

Sammy Gecsoyler
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EU faces fierce criticism over plans to host Taliban in Brussels
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EU faces fierce criticism over plans to host Taliban in Brussels

Rights campaigners and MEPs say meeting would normalise regime that erases women from public lifeEU officials are facing fierce criticism over plans to host the Taliban in Brussels on Tuesday, with rights campaigners and MEPs warning that the meeting risks normalising a regime that has banned girls...

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent
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Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country? – podcast
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Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country? – podcast

Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for England, with temperatures potentially reaching 40C (104F) in some places. Europe is also dealing with a debilitating heatwave, with schools closed, trains cancelled and France even restricting the consumption of alcohol outdoors to t...

Presented by Ian Sample, with Ajit Niranjan, produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Ross Burns, the executive producer was Ellie Bury
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Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit over LA sanctuary city policy
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Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit over LA sanctuary city policy

City hails victory after US officials sued over ordinance that limits LA’s cooperation with immigration authoritiesA California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed ⁠by Donald Trump’s administration against Los Angeles over a city ordinance limiting ⁠its cooperation with federal ⁠immigration ​authori...

Abené Clayton and agencies
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Where did it all go wrong for Starmer? – podcast
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Where did it all go wrong for Starmer? – podcast

The UK has lost its sixth prime minister in a decade. How did Keir Starmer go from landslide victory to resigning in two years?When the former human rights lawyer, full of ambition, won a landslide in the 2024 general election, hope was in the air. Keir Starmer had arrived on a promise to repair 14...

Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Rafael Behr; produced by Ivor Manley, Guy Szafman, Aisha Riaz and Rudi Zygadlo
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Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
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Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a filmThe memoir of a man who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive.The 230-page m...

Dalya Alberge
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A fire in LA has been burning for days. What’s taking so long to put it out?
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A fire in LA has been burning for days. What’s taking so long to put it out?

While warehouse fires are often extinguished in a day, the Boyle Heights blaze is on its sixth day. Here’s what to knowLos Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of battling a fire at a massive warehouse near downtown that stores frozen food.Smoke has billowed from the warehouse, which was cove...

Associated Press
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Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas
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Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas

Technology to be used in six more areas next year as critics say tens of thousands of people will be forced into ‘digital police lineup’The Metropolitan police is to expand its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, first into London’s West End by Christmas and then into a further six area...

Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
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US Senate passes bipartisan bill to lower housing costs
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US Senate passes bipartisan bill to lower housing costs

21st Century Road to Housing Act, which aims to boost supply and stop investors buying up homes, heads to HouseSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Senate on Monday passed a bipartisan measure aimed at lowering housing costs by streamlining construction an...

Chris Stein in Washington
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Reflecting pool to be drained again as Trump claims five vandalism arrests
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Reflecting pool to be drained again as Trump claims five vandalism arrests

President says ‘vandals’ to blame for algae blooms and peeling paint as $14m renovation to undergo further repairsThe Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is set to be drained again after Donald Trump said on Monday – without providing proof – that five people were arrested for vandalism and five more a...

Vivian Ho
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Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition
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Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Company wants to sell objects despite agreements to only display them at museums and traveling exhibitionsA plan to auction more than 100 artifacts salvaged from the wreckage of the Titanic – including personal belongings, currency, kitchen items and decor – is facing pushback from the US government...

Associated Press
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California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices
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California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices

Firms including BP and 7-Eleven accused of coordinating prices to ‘wring more money from pockets of consumers’Gas ⁠station ​operators including BP, Circle K, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons were sued on Monday by California drivers ⁠who accused them of using artificial intelligence to boo...

Reuters
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UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok
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UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok

Move for greater prominence on social media comes as ministers warn online misinformation risk becoming ‘existential for our democracy’Plans to hand established broadcasters and media companies greater prominence on digital platforms such as YouTube and TikTok have been unveiled, as ministers warned...

Michael Savage Media editor
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Andy Burnham prepares for power as emotional Keir Starmer bows out
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Andy Burnham prepares for power as emotional Keir Starmer bows out

New Makerfield MP could get keys to No 10 unopposed after British prime minister’s resignation paves way for successorWho is Andy Burnham, the ‘man of the people’ likely to be next UK prime minister?Keir Starmer has finally bowed to intense pressure to stand down as British prime minister as he conc...

Pippa Crerar, Kiran Stacey and Jessica Elgot
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HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first
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HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first

Barrister who was given material produced by Garfield AI says advocacy at trial ‘remained fundamentally human’An artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer.A freelance HR consultant, Tamires Ca...

Charlie Moloney
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Two killed and several injured as tornado rips through southern Illinois
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Two killed and several injured as tornado rips through southern Illinois

Officials say Sarita Kimble, 62, and Delores Shelton, 83, killed in Mount Vernon as several buildings destroyedAuthorities in Illinois say that two older residents were killed and at least five other people were injured in a tornado that ripped through a rural county and destroyed several buildings...

Richard Luscombe
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Andy Burnham supporters divided over who should be his chancellor
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Andy Burnham supporters divided over who should be his chancellor

Briefing war breaks out between advocates for Wes Streeting and those close to Ed MilibandAndy Burnham’s supporters are divided over who should be his chancellor, with a briefing war breaking out between advocates of the former health secretary Wes Streeting and those close to the energy secretary E...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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